> asking "why" is an unexpected minefield in some circles I suspect this largely stems from too many cases of not asking "Why do we X?" but rather "Why do we X

> asking "why" is an unexpected minefield in some circles I suspect this largely stems from too many cases of not asking "Why do we X?" but rather "Why do we X instead of silver bullet/fad of the week Y that will fix all our problems?" Many of those technical leads have spent years fending off an onslaught of "obviously better" tools/processes/etc... that even if they _were_ actually an improvement would have grown to consume all available time in switching costs alone.